NURSES HAVE DONE IT RIGHT ALL ALONG!

Have you ever seen a nurse warming your baby’s feeding with a hair dryer or space heater? No!
Nurses have placed the feeding container in a cup of water. Why? Because it is efficient and it works. The only difference with current practice vs. a standardized system is the variability of actual feeding temperature. Warming with water is a method we’ve known since before grade school. In school we learned why this is an efficient method.

Simply stated, the distance between molecules in air (a gas) and water (a liquid) makes a huge difference in the energy required to transfer temperature. It takes 24 times more energy to use air. This means high temperature and energy are required to accomplish the task in the same amount of time as water. Energy is costly and high temperature has critical implications. (Do Read More after this paragraph)
Consider that most baby bottles are made from plastics which are synthetic, oil-based hydrocarbons with proprietary additives. At ambient temperature, these plastics are relatively safe and tested for leachable chemicals. What happens at elevated temperature? The United States Pharmacopeia states that accelerated extractable research starts at 120°F. Therefore, warming a plastic container should be accomplished at a temperature below this threshold. Water is the key to safely warming a plastic container evenly, without exceeding the extractable threshold. Nurses have done it right all along!
The infectious control implication is to isolate water exposure from both the feeding and the NICU so that waterborne pathogens are not introduced in practice. Discover the Penguin® Nutritional Warmer’s ISO-Therma-Liner, the SAFEST nutritional warming solution. The ISO-Therma-Liner completely isolates water from the feeding and the NICU while employing three decades of proven, FDA regulated, pharmaceutical manufacturing technology to offer the SAFEST practice for nutritional warming. Properly isolated, water is not a risk. It is a cost effective and ideal transfer medium for safely and efficiently warming baby’s feeding.
Please DO think of the Penguin® as the water-based warming system; but please understand that we completely isolate water.
Just like Kangaroo Care is the best way to warm baby, the Penguin® is the best way to warm baby’s feeding.